At SAZ MEDIA, we are thrilled to have been actively involved with the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. As an organisation, we are dedicated to embracing and consistently practicing the 7 characteristics of the charter, ensuring Good Employment remains an ongoing focus within our team. This project has strengthened our commitment to nurturing a positive work environment, where every individual's contributions are appreciated and encouraged. In this spirit, we would like to highlight our Content Creator Apprentice, Tom’s significant contributions to the Good Employment Charter project, as we strive to provide on-going training and support to our team members in their respective roles.
Here is what Tom has to say about his experience and what he learned throughout his role, working with the Good Employment Charter:
“I started working on the Good Employment Charter with SAZ Media in March 2023. I have taken on multiple roles whilst working on the project with GEC such as Editing, photographing, Interviewing and Subtitling. Each of these was challenging and fun at the same time.”
Editing
“As an editor it was my job to take the footage that we had captured and turn it into the finished video to be posted to YouTube for the winners of the awards. I was able to take what each of the winners said in their interviews and bring the best bits forward to the video to help show the company in their best light and allow them to express how thankful they are for the nominations and votes that helped them to win the award. Through the editing process I also needed to make the visual graphics that were played in front and at the end of the videos for both the winners and the nomination videos that we created. These were used to introduce the companies and inform people as to how and where they can find and contact the team at the Good Employment Charter.”
Subtitling
“Additionally I worked on the videos to subtitle them, so that in the event that there was someone who was hard of hearing watching the videos they would still be able to enjoy the videos all the same and know what was being said throughout the videos. This was challenging to do as I needed to get the subtitles both grammatically correct and ensure that there were no spelling errors or American spellings of words throughout the video.”
Interview film of the 3 finalists for the 'Best for Employee Engagement' award for the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter Awards 2023.
Watch the rest of the films for the Good Employment Charter Award event by clicking here.
Photographing
“Through my time photographing for the Good Employment Charter I had lots of fun. This was partly photographing behind the scenes photos on the days of filming for the videos and also photographing the awards ceremony itself, which allowed me to capture the winners of the awards receiving them, and seeing the smiles on their faces as they did so. With the behind the scenes photos I would capture some of the moments of our team on set whilst we were filming and interviewing for the videos.”
Behind-the-scenes glimpse of the SAZ MEDIA team as they conduct an interview with the Good Employment Charter Awards nominees, Wigan & Leigh College.
Interviewing
“Finally, I also had times where I took on the role as an interviewer. This involved asking questions to the people who worked at their respective companies to allow us to be able to get the footage that we would need to create the videos of the Good Employment Charter. This was quite challenging for me as I had never really done anything like this before, however I did enjoy it as it allowed me to talk with the people who worked for the companies who had been nominated and see what kind of people they were and help them to feel more comfortable being on camera even if I wasn’t the most comfortable asking the questions. I was able to hear all sorts of answers with varying topics about how it was to work at the companies in regards to their wellbeing and mental health as well as what their companies are doing to help with things such as how the company they work for is tackling inclusion.”
Tom conducting an interview with The Co-operative Bank, one of the nominees for the Good Employment Charter Awards.
“Getting the opportunity to work with the Good Employment Charter and creating the videos for their awards ceremony was an absolute pleasure and I truly enjoyed every second of it, from interviewing the companies all the way through to photographing the event and editing the videos. This is one of the biggest projects I have worked on since starting with SAZ MEDIA and I cannot wait to work with the Good Employment Charter on future projects.” - Tom
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